The spreading of a drop by capillary action

DOI10.1017/S0022112082001979zbMath0492.76101OpenAlexW2134842815MaRDI QIDQ3955084

A. D. Rivers, L. M. Hocking

Publication date: 1982

Published in: Journal of Fluid Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112082001979

zbMATH Keywords

matched asymptotic expansionsmoving contact linecontact circlehorizontal surfaceReynolds number smallBond number smallslip coefficient smallspreading of drop by capillary action

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Multiphase and multicomponent flows (76T99) Stokes and related (Oseen, etc.) flows (76D07) Asymptotic expansions of solutions to PDEs (35C20) Representations of solutions to partial differential equations (35C99)

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Cites Work

• The Stokes flow problem for a class of axially symmetric bodies
• A moving fluid interface on a rough surface
• A moving fluid interface. Part 2. The removal of the force singularity by a slip flow

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